November, 2021

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The 5 Best FinOps Tools For 2022

CloudZero

Cloud financial management has become an increasingly sophisticated business function over the past few years, far beyond what many cloud stakeholders anticipated. As a result, many companies are unable to monitor and allocate cloud costs accurately.

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Income but no cash?!

SMB Accounting and Consulting

Income but no cash?! How does that happen?? How could a business be making money according to their profit and loss but have no money… or even worse, negative cashflow? This answer can vary depending on whether the company’s books are kept on a cash basis or accrual basis, but the general premise is the same. A company pays cash for things that don’t show up on the profit and loss.

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How SAP Ariba/DSN Users Can Solve the 'Last Mile' of AP Automation

IPS

The benefits of the SAP Ariba/Digital Supplier Network (DSN) are tantalizing:

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Will AI Replace Humans in Finance?

Oversight

One of the most effective and intimidating advancements in finance is the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to transform the industry with streamlined processes. As technology continues to advance, there seems to be a growing fear that AI will replace humans in every conceivable professional field.

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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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How to Make Accounting & Taxation Service Stress Free

Billah and Associates

Indeed, tax season is an overwhelming time for both the taxpayers and bookkeepers who help in planning for the season. Everybody realizes that when the clock strikes close to January, then, at that point, taxation services in Etobicoke , are toward the back of each entrepreneur and salaryman’s mind. The staggering amount of desk work, severe cutoff times, a colossal number of rules and dread of not knowing the amount you owe is getting heavy on taxpayers all day long.

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Empowering Mission-Driven Organizations With Dext Prepare

Dext

AMLB found Dext in 2019 and since then has deployed out to a wide variety of clients to support their accounting and bookkeeping work. With Dext, AMLB is able to create an optimized workflow and centralized experience for all of their clients. Download the case study to find out more.

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Errors in Posting Payroll

SMB Accounting and Consulting

Almost every business has some sort of payroll to pay their employees. Payroll can become much more complicated than some assume and it often has a substantial impact on financial results. The largest expense for many businesses is their labor expense, yet it’s often the most misunderstood. One of the most common errors is derived from posting expenses as cash comes out of the bank.

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3 Signs Your Books Aren't Ready for Tax Season

Stephanie Peterson

You Have Transactions Not Categorized If your books contain uncategorized transactions, your financial reports will not be accurate. Often, you will find these transactions labeled as Uncategorized Income and Uncategorized Expenses in QuickBooks. Any transactions that are not classified must be done before your taxes are filed to ensure accuracy. Your Accounts Aren't Reconciled It is crucial to make sure accounts are reconciled before filing your taxes.

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AvidPay Direct Improves Cash Flow For NYC-Based Business Owner

AvidXchange

Jeff Gross, co-founder of organic cleaning products manufacturer Organically Maid , has enjoyed a new way to dramatically cut the time it takes to get paid by one of his customers. After his customer approves a payment for Organically Made, Jeff receives his funds in just three business days via AvidPay Direct , an enhanced direct deposit offering provided by AvidXchange.

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CFO’s on a Rising Tide of Change

Oversight

If you’re lucky enough to be in charge of an organization’s finances, you’ve had your share of headaches. Perhaps none have been as pervasive as the last few years, however. Pandemic notwithstanding, the role of the Chief Financial Officer has changed. This week’s Fortune declared that CFO’s “ can’t hide from tech.” We agree.

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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How Pancreatic Cancer Canada Reaches New Heights

Dext

For Pancreatic Cancer Canada and AMLB, Dext has provided a massive boost in efficiency to their workflows allowing them to spend less time on their finances and more time achieving their goals. Download the case study and watch the above video to find out how.

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What Are On-Demand Instances And When Should You Use Them?

CloudZero

According to Amazon , On-Demand Instances are best reserved for short-term processes with uneven workloads that cannot be interrupted. This might partly explain why such EC2 instances are exceedingly popular with AWS users.

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Is Money Or The Ability To Execute Holding Your Business Back

SLC Bookkeeping

The majority of business owners are trying to grow, right? And they will give all sorts of reasons for why they aren't achieving their growth goals. The most common excuses I hear for coming up short on business goals are the lack of time and money. But is lack of time and money really holding you back? Or is it the ability to develop a strategy, and the confidence to execute that strategy?

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Overcoming the Barriers to Invoice-to-Pay Automation

IPS

The operational and strategic benefits of invoice-to-pay automation are proven.

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Avoiding Lease Accounting Pitfalls in 2025: Lessons Learned from Spreadsheet Errors

Speaker: Abdi Ali, Sr. Lease Accounting Consultant

Join this insightful webinar with industry expert Abdi Ali, who will discuss the challenges that can arise from managing lease accounting with spreadsheets! He will share real-world examples of errors, compliance issues, and risks that may be present within your spreadsheets. Learn how these tools, while useful, can sometimes lead to inefficiencies that affect your time, resources, and peace of mind.

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The Importance of Technology in Post-Pandemic Real Estate

AvidXchange

This article, written by AvidXchange’s own Brian Thayer, is an excerpt from our recent eBook “Expert Insights: The New State of Real Estate,” available for download here. Soon after the pandemic started in the United States in 2020, many businesses rapidly sent their employees to work at home. The situation was urgent. There was very little time for companies to study the technology needed to pay bills on time and make sure their employees remained productive.

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How the New Brigade Will Help You Smash Your Goals

Brigade

As of today, we have a new day and an elevated mission. We are now “Brigade” and I could not be more excited!

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How Lucent Advisory Saves Over 100 Hours per Month with Dext Prepare

Dext

About Lucent Advisory Lucent Advisory, based in Adelaide, offers a wide-range of services including bookkeeping, tax, advisory, CFO support, payroll and HR.

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3 Improvements Finance Teams Can Make To Their FP&A Process

CloudZero

FP&A is a strategic part of the finance organization and has the potential to drive important business outcomes. When done right, it can have a major positive impact on the future of the business. When done poorly, it can slow a company down.

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Back to Basics with Reconciliations

Join us in this webinar, where we share best practices on how to think about the reconciliation work each month, when best to do reconciliations, how they should be prepared, and some common pitfalls to avoid. Learning Objectives: This course objective is to understand how to properly prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations and its impact on the financial statements.

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How Much do Professional Bookkeeping Services Cost?

OSYB

There’s no denying that effective bookkeeping is a vital aspect of any business aspiring to run as efficiently as possible. In order to accomplish this, there are two common routes: Spend the time recruiting and hiring an in-house bookkeeper with the necessary skills and experience Use professional bookkeeping services to handle your books The in-house method is often the most common.

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Xenett

Bookkeeping Side Hustle

Xenett Autoreview, An Intelligent Clean-up Tool for Accountants and Bookkeepers Register for this demo with Xenett, an intelligent clean up tool for accountants and bookkeepers. Come with your questions! Be sure to register for the prize giveaway. Related Articles Ready to start your virtual bookkeeping journey? Get the Bookkeeping Side Hustle Guidebook.

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Your 6-Step Guide for Avoiding Duplicate Payments in AP Processing

AvidXchange

Here at AvidXchange, we want to help your accounts payable (AP) team avoid making duplicate payments — a significant industry problem. With this goal in mind, we’re sharing insights that one of our principal solutions consultants, Rhonda Greene, offered during our recent REVx 2021 event. She explained what duplicate payments are, outlined the scope of these headaches and taught us how to prevent them, as well as associated fraudulent attacks.

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CPA Evolution Is Missing The Weeds

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Rewind: [link] CenterCard: [link] Client Hub: [link] Need CPE? Subscribe to the Earmark Accounting Podcast: [link] Get CPE for listening to podcasts with Earmark CPE: [link] Show Notes 3:57 – SPACs Headed for New Wave of Restatements for Accounting Errors [link] 5:57 – Senators Question Commissioner About Company Offering Fee-Based Access to IRS Phone Lines [link] 11:55 – Opinion | IRS reform will generate a lot more revenue than the CBO thinks - The Washington Post [link] 14:17

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Selling Advisory Services with Josh Lance

Earmark Accounting Podcast

Our Sponsor To learn more about how Practice Ignition can help your firm eliminate accounts receivable and for 50% off your first three months, visit [link] Our Guest Josh Lance, CPA, CGMA on Linkedin: [link] Joshua Lance, CPA, CGMA, shares his best practices for selling advisory as part of your accounting firm's services. Learn how to extract the value of advisory services you're already providing on an ad hoc basis by formalizing the advisory relationship as part of a subscription offering.

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The 3 Best Ways To Talk To Your C-Suite About Cloud Costs

CloudZero

For any company working in the cloud or using managed cloud services to create products, cloud costs represent a significant expense. If you lead an engineering team, you may have to defend your bill to your CEO or CFO.

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Ep. 153: Heather Polivka - Leading Hybrid & Remote Teams

IMA's Count Me

Email: heatherp@heatherpsolutions.com Linkedin: [link] Design your hybrid/remote work experience: [link] Train your new/first-time managers to lead hybrid and remote teams: [link] FULL EPISODE TRANSCRIPT Mitch: (00:05) Welcome back to Count Me In. Here with you again is your host Mitch Roshong and this is episode 153 of IMA's podcast series.

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6 Accounting & Bookkeeping Lessons From Steve Wozniak

Dext

Our CEO, Adrian Blair, interviewed Apple co-founder and general all round good guy, Steve Wozniak. They spoke about how accountants & bookkeepers can align with the digital age and be the human focal point which tech can never replace.

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Solve Your Firm's Automation Complexities Once and For All

Speaker: Mark Stovel

When it comes to automating, many firms focus on finding the latest tech, believing that efficiency is something achieved through new tools. Yet true efficiency is achieved by delivering real value to clients, not merely by upgraded systems. Without a clear approach, no level of automation can overcome the complexities of serving every client’s needs.

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Global Standard for Classifying Goods to Change Come January

NACM

Another factor will soon further complicate the global supply chain crisis and international trade—new harmonized system numbers (known as HS codes). HS codes are the global standard for classifying goods in international trade. Starting Jan. 1, more than 350 global HS codes will be updates and roughly 1,500 U.S. tariff codes will also be chan.

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Accounting Metaverse

Cloud Accounting Podcast

Sponsors Fyle: [link] Rewind: [link] Reach Reporting: [link] Need CPE? Subscribe to the Earmark Accounting Podcast: [link] Get CPE for listening to podcasts with Earmark CPE: [link] Show Notes 2:43 – Our takeaways from Sage Transform, and news on upcoming CAP bonus interviews from the conference! 5:32 – Intacct and ADP Partner to Streamline Back-office Processes for Midsized Companies [link] 8:02 – A little compare and contrast of NetSuite, and Sage Intacct 10:28 – Some thoughts on Sage

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Can Private Equity Save The CPA Firm From Disruption?

Earmark Accounting Podcast

Our Guest Charles Weinstein, CEO @ Eisner Advisory Group LLC [link] Charly Weinstein, CEO at EisnerAmper, discusses why his firm decided to split off audit into a separate CPA firm while also taking on private equity investment in a new, non-CPA entity that will offer tax and consulting services. While the alternative practice structure is not new, could this be the beginning of a new trend in PE investment in CPA firms?

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The 3 Best Ways To Talk To Your C-Suite About Cloud Costs

CloudZero

For any company working in the cloud or using managed cloud services to create products, cloud costs represent a significant expense. If you lead an engineering team, you may have to defend your bill to your CEO or CFO.

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Travel and Expense Policy Success: Your Essential Checklist

Setting the stage for successful organizational change always begins with clear, thoughtful communication. When it comes to rolling out a new travel and expense (T&E) policy, establishing a well-structured communication plan is key to ensuring that all employees understand the changes and their impact. By following a step-by-step approach, you can guide your organization through the transition, fostering smooth adoption from the outset and improving compliance.